Who painted “Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power”?

“Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power” was painted by Pietro da Cortona in 1633.

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Baroque: Renaissance painting is calmer and evenly lit; Rococo after it is lighter, paler and playful. Dutch Golden Age painting is the Protestant, everyday side of the same century.

Pietro da Cortona (1 November 1596 or 1597 – 16 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. Wikipedia

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